World Bank funding alone cannot end double-track by 2027 — IFEST

The Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Dr Peter Anti Partey, has questioned the feasibility of the government's plan to eliminate the double-track system in Senior High Schools (SHSs) by 2027, arguing that the timeline does not align with the implementation schedule of the recently approved World Bank education support facility.

His comments come after the Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, announced in the 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review that the government had secured a World Bank facility to accelerate infrastructure expansion in second-cycle institutions as part of efforts to phase out the double-track system.

He said although the World Bank funding represented a significant boost to Ghana's secondary education infrastructure, procurement procedures and project implementation timelines made it unlikely that the programme could deliver the required infrastructure within the period announced by government.